Tag: Culture Machine

  • Registration for Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care now open

    Registration for Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care now open

    Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care Two days of critical discussion about creating a more diverse and equitable future for open access The Post Office Coventry University June 26-27 2018  Organised by Coventry University’s postdigital arts and humanities research studio The Post Office, a project of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures Find out more at: http://radicaloa.co.uk/conferences/roa2/…

  • Radical Open Access Conference

    Radical Open Access Conference

    Coventry University 15th – 16th of June 2015 Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis…

  • Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles

    Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles

    Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles‘ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/e/technogenesis-and-media-specific-analysis-n-katherine-hayles/ This interview with literary scholar N. Katherine Hayles by Janneke Adema…

  • Software Theory – Federica Frabetti

    Software Theory – Federica Frabetti

    Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Software Theory – Federica Frabetti‘ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/e/software-theory-federica-frabetti/ This interview with media theorist Federica Frabetti by Janneke Adema focuses on Frabetti’s recently…

  • Culture Machine Live podcast: Johanna Drucker

    Culture Machine Live podcast: Johanna Drucker

    Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Speculative Computing and the Aesthetics of the Humanities: Johanna Drucker’ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/2013/11/24/speculative-computing-and-the-aesthetics-of-the-humanities-johanna-drucker/ This interview with visual and cultural theorist and practitioner…

  • Forget the Book

    Forget the Book

    Yesterday I attended the excellent event Forget the Book: Writing in the Age of Digital Publishing, at Goldsmiths, University of London. The event was organised by Sarah Kember and Benjamin Pester as part of the CREATe consortium work package ‘Whose Book is it Anyway’. It featured Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths) in discussion with Doug Sery (MIT…

  • Culture Machine Live

    Culture Machine Live

    Culture Machine Live is a podcast series dedicated to discussions of culture and theory. As one of the editors of this series (alongside Clare Birchall, Gary Hall & Pete Woodbridge) I have been conducting interviews with media and cultural theorists. Culture Machine Live is an extension of the online, open access journal of culture, theory and…

  • New Visions for the Book III: Liquid Books

    Part 1 – Fluid environments and liquid publications The ease with which nowadays continual updates can be made has brought into question not only the stability of documents but at the same time the need for and the efficiency of stable objects. Wikipedia is one of the often-cited examples of how the speed of improving…

  • More Cultural Studies = Less Uptake

    Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print  (2009) recently published an interesting article in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies on the inconsistencies in the current journal publishing system, focusing specifically on the situation within the field of Cultural Studies. In his article, entitled Acknowledged Goods: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Academic Journal Publishing, Striphas gives…